Matthew trained at the Royal Northern College of Music. He is currently based in London and works as a chorister and session singer.
Matthew has sung chorus for a number of highly acclaimed opera companies including Opera Holland Park, Aldeburgh Festival, Grange Park Opera Buxton Festival & Northern Ireland Opera.
Recent recordings with Opera Rara include Leoncavallo's 'Zingari', Puccini's 'Le Villi' & Donizetti's 'Il Paria', conducted by Carlo Rizzi & Sir Mark Elder.
In early 2020, he recorded Christopher Tin's recent album 'To Shiver the Sky' with the Royal Opera House chorus.
In 2019 he performed 'The Rakes Progress' (conducted by Barbara Hannigan) at the Aldeburgh Festival. Opera chorus credits at Opera Holland Park include Le, Villi, HMS Pinafore, L'amico Fritz, The Cunning little Vixen, Iolanta, L'aresiana, Isabeau, Zaza and Kat'a Kabanova, Iris, La Boheme and The Queen of Spades. Elsewhere in the UK, he has sung in Turandot with Northern Ireland Opera as well as Peter Grimes, Queen of Spades, Fortunio, Madama Butterfly, Idomeneo, Tristan und Isolde, The Love for Three Oranges and Tosca for Grange Park Opera where in 2014, he was awarded the Grange Park Opera young artist scholarship.
Roles have included Vegliardo (Isabeau) & 2nd Drinker (Margot la Rouge) for Opera Holland Park, Un Bourgeois (Fortunio) with Grange Park Opera & Schaunard (La Boheme) with Opera Up Close whose award winning production, translated and directed by Robin Norton-Hale, went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production in 2011.
Other roles have included Fanshaw/Raimbaud (Count Ory) & Don Inigo Gomez (L'heure espagnole) with Opera Alegria for London's Grimeborn Opera Festival, Frank (Die Fledermaus) with Fulham Opera, Hobson (Peter Grimes) with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerald (La belle de la Bete) at Tete a Tete Opera Festival & Baron (La Traviata) with Merry Opera, whose production toured to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in collaboration with Petaling Jaya Arts.
On the solo concert platform he has sung at numerous venues across the UK, notably at the London Handel Festival with the Amade Players and also in the title role in Elijah at the Cadogan Hall with the London Gay Mens Chorus.
Matthew has also had extensive experience singing with a number of the UK's leading vocal consorts including the Yorkshire Bach Choir, Blossom Street Singers, The Halle Choir and the Philharmonia Chorus. He has performed at numerous venues including the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John's Smith Square & Welsh Millennium Centre. He regularly performs with Barbershop-O-Gram & Pitch Perfect Voices who perform across the UK and have all made appearances on television and radio.
Alongside performing, Matthew leads a busy schedule of teaching singing and piano across London. He is currently a music peripatetic teaching at Chigwell School, Lister Community School, Sebright Primary School & St. Stephen's School Shepherd's Bush (with Pelican Music). In addition to his teaching work he also conducts the Camberwell Community Choir and is assistant director of the St Giles Church Choir Camberwell in South London.
Matthew has sung chorus for a number of highly acclaimed opera companies including Opera Holland Park, Aldeburgh Festival, Grange Park Opera Buxton Festival & Northern Ireland Opera.
Recent recordings with Opera Rara include Leoncavallo's 'Zingari', Puccini's 'Le Villi' & Donizetti's 'Il Paria', conducted by Carlo Rizzi & Sir Mark Elder.
In early 2020, he recorded Christopher Tin's recent album 'To Shiver the Sky' with the Royal Opera House chorus.
In 2019 he performed 'The Rakes Progress' (conducted by Barbara Hannigan) at the Aldeburgh Festival. Opera chorus credits at Opera Holland Park include Le, Villi, HMS Pinafore, L'amico Fritz, The Cunning little Vixen, Iolanta, L'aresiana, Isabeau, Zaza and Kat'a Kabanova, Iris, La Boheme and The Queen of Spades. Elsewhere in the UK, he has sung in Turandot with Northern Ireland Opera as well as Peter Grimes, Queen of Spades, Fortunio, Madama Butterfly, Idomeneo, Tristan und Isolde, The Love for Three Oranges and Tosca for Grange Park Opera where in 2014, he was awarded the Grange Park Opera young artist scholarship.
Roles have included Vegliardo (Isabeau) & 2nd Drinker (Margot la Rouge) for Opera Holland Park, Un Bourgeois (Fortunio) with Grange Park Opera & Schaunard (La Boheme) with Opera Up Close whose award winning production, translated and directed by Robin Norton-Hale, went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production in 2011.
Other roles have included Fanshaw/Raimbaud (Count Ory) & Don Inigo Gomez (L'heure espagnole) with Opera Alegria for London's Grimeborn Opera Festival, Frank (Die Fledermaus) with Fulham Opera, Hobson (Peter Grimes) with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerald (La belle de la Bete) at Tete a Tete Opera Festival & Baron (La Traviata) with Merry Opera, whose production toured to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in collaboration with Petaling Jaya Arts.
On the solo concert platform he has sung at numerous venues across the UK, notably at the London Handel Festival with the Amade Players and also in the title role in Elijah at the Cadogan Hall with the London Gay Mens Chorus.
Matthew has also had extensive experience singing with a number of the UK's leading vocal consorts including the Yorkshire Bach Choir, Blossom Street Singers, The Halle Choir and the Philharmonia Chorus. He has performed at numerous venues including the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John's Smith Square & Welsh Millennium Centre. He regularly performs with Barbershop-O-Gram & Pitch Perfect Voices who perform across the UK and have all made appearances on television and radio.
Alongside performing, Matthew leads a busy schedule of teaching singing and piano across London. He is currently a music peripatetic teaching at Chigwell School, Lister Community School, Sebright Primary School & St. Stephen's School Shepherd's Bush (with Pelican Music). In addition to his teaching work he also conducts the Camberwell Community Choir and is assistant director of the St Giles Church Choir Camberwell in South London.